The best baseball books for baseball fans and why they are worth reading

Giants vs. Dodgers: “The Coast-To-Coast History of the Rivalry Heard Round the World”

It’s a tale as old as time; the Giants and the Dodgers aren’t friends. It doesn’t matter if it’s Spring Training, or Game seven of the NLCS, San Francisco and LA are rivals in every sense of the word. In LA, a Kershaw/Bumgarner game is unmissable.

Giants vs. Dodgers tells a story, a very real, and honest story. The book itself spans over a dozen decades, beginning at the start of the rivalry, in 1889, and ending with the famous line; “Don’t look at me.”

The book’s author, Joe Konte, hails from the Bay area but is as impartial as a Patriots fan at a Lakers/Clippers game. This book isn’t about bashing one side of the rivalry or the other, it’s about the story behind the reason these fans disagree.

The Giant’s and the Dodgers may never get along but, at the end of the day, understanding why is what matters.